Look at it! 🤣 It’s called a flattened clown beetle and apparently, it stinks, too. 🤣!!! It’s out there slipping into cracks and crevices, pinching people and looking like a clown shoe.

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

Oooh. I love this! amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...

Good news! The full table of contents for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT, edited by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolommeo, is now available on the @sunypress.bsky.social website: sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-.... Follow the link or see next post for screenshots. 🤗

[we] "would hang on the stairs and ledges of the night the way angels are shown to lounge on clouds, waiting for something to go terribly wrong" I love this poem, love how Hayden's poem shimmers alongside it.… open.substack.com/pub/swwimmia...

crow & aaron doing a last call of the year. open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.) especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings" all genre 500 word max havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...

Let this poem sneak up on you. open.substack.com/pub/swwimmia...

what the actual lavender-scented FUCK?!?!

Because every women's studies course needs to give angry 45-year-old male drunks—who don't go to the school and often aren't in the same state—an opportunity to learn what's on tap and menace the faculty. (h/t @tressiemcphd.bsky.social)

Thanks so much, @swwim.bsky.social, for choosing this poem to share, and for curating/hosting such a great platform for art!

"This is happening despite employers investing billions in wellness apps, engagement programs and other strategies. Many organizations are pouring money into individual coping tools while systematically removing the very infrastructure needed for community." theconversation.com/the-price-of...

An interview at @insidehighered.com with my now-former supervisor and always-forever friend @robinderosa.net about her job elimination, the situation at our school, and the sad state of higher ed generally: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I wrote a new piece for @pghcitypaper.com about loving analog media in a digital world. If you’re someone who’s into vinyl, film photography, print media, and invaluable local businesses, you should check it out! I also coin the phrase “techno-bummerism” lol

What a gift a trusted reader is for a working writer! Here's a poem I wrote about one particularly trusted reader. Thanks, Lavender Review, for including it in this latest issue. www.lavrev.net/2025/12/liz-...

I think everything should come from horseshoe crabs. Or! Tulips! open.substack.com/pub/swwimmia...

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

this really isn’t an exaggeration

Been working for weeks trying to write something about exiting academia. This branched off of that. When the larger "something about exiting academia" will be finished is anybody's guess. lizahl.com/2025/12/03/s...

Increasingly tech is seeking to solve for the problem "humans exist," which is what you'd expect to see in a system where humans are seen as a cost and not a value.

Judging from the quotes in here, university admins are some of the least “ai literate” people in existence. No wonder they think students need to be taught how to use it.

If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...

For World AIDS Day, here's a piece I wrote in 2016 about the effect of growing up queer during the crisis era, and the way books (library books especially) were essential to surviving those days. lithub.com/reading-and-...

Essential reading.

This! Listen to the end.

We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges. But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

A poem I wrote. Snowflakes outside now instead of swallowtails.

Hey I wrote this and got a lot of hate mail so maybe you can share it

Really appreciated this podcast/conversation with @hypervisible.blacksky.app www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBg...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

"Once you let go of the idea that you have to be a reliable narrator, you can begin to consider letting go of the idea of being a narrator at all." —Richard Siken tinyurl.com/yvyt8nsv

Since this article and its perspectives are generating a bit of buzz, I'd like to dig into what I find distasteful and, frankly, disingenous about it, particularly the ethical values it proclaims. 1/8 www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Great, sharable resources! #zines #resist

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Here's one of two poems I'm happy to have included in the new "Birds of a Feather" issue of The Fourth River -- www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

From the outside it might look like ICE officers wear masks to avoid accountability, but in reality they are a way to avoid accountability. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Call volume is currently very high forever.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?

I didn't know when I chose them that these treasures by Natalie Diaz & @ired0mi.bsky.social would be the last books I taught as an English prof (taking a last minute buyout in grim conditions). These books, individually, are terrific. Together, in conversation? Holy smokes. Revelation & balm, both.

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

This person took this when they called the race

"You have had days like this, no doubt. And wasn’t it wonderful, finally, to leave the room? Ah, what a moment! As for myself, I swung the door open. And there was the wordless, singing world. And I ran for my life." www.medhumchat.com/discussiongu...

In this November edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I give a brief history of a radical higher education experiment from late-1960s Berkeley. I recommend two podcast episodes, several good recent articles and essays, and more… open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...